Monthly Archives: June 2018

The Roads Not Taken–all the different jobs and careers I might have had A World of Ideas and Books–the role these have had in making my adult life and sensibility My U Courses–what marked me intellectually before a long teaching … Continue reading →

As in 1966-67. Paul McCartney’s latest video online May 21-22, 2018. (Available on YouTube and CBC–runs about 30 mins.) McCa carpools it singing along with Beatles songs on the radio around Liverpool, stopping at Penny Lane, his childhood home, making … Continue reading →

stinking of pot smoke. Imagine that the country is going to become one massive ubiquitous doobie. Thank you Justin.

BTW/ Has the world gotten crazier or what? Two former female Koko caretakers were once fired for refusing to bare their breasts to the gorilla who loved nipples, which led to a lawsuit.

Watching the tv commercial today as the ‘perfect good’ mother carelessly sprays Febreze on her kids’ clothes, their bedding and pillows, around dogs, willy-nilly on rugs, and on towels families put their faces into. Madness and very dangerous for ordinary … Continue reading →

Taylor Hall, winner of the Hart Trophy. One of the few guys who has ever wanted to stay in and play for Edmonton. Ah, but Chiarelli knows so much. To wit, the albatross around the neck contract of his buddy … Continue reading →

Actually E-Coli Beach. Only city council would go ahead in the style of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People and rush to open a dangerous attraction which health authorities and a Thomas Stockman will eventually call them on for its … Continue reading →

God help us one and all. It’ll be ‘fun’ watching them drive themselves relying on GPS technology to get lost, take longer, busier routes, etc. Won’t it be ‘fun’ too to see how they make out reading highway signs, turn-off … Continue reading →

A well-done 1979 drama directed by the late great Otto Preminger adapted from Greene’s novel. clever dialogue by Tom Stoppard and well-acted by Nicol Williamson (whom I met at McNally when he was in town) and Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud, … Continue reading →

For me, there is always a magic about seeing a good live play. This summer I’ll take in the Free Will Players’ The Comedy of Errors which is one of the few Shakespeares I’ve not read or seen. I’ve literally … Continue reading →